JoBeth Williams Archives

What the Night Can Do

Luana is a 12-year-old girl struggling to grasp the world collapsing around her, as her parents separate and her estranged Grandfather falls ill. It takes one unlikely person to help her find her way.

NR

4

2020 Drama 92 min Play

6.5

In My Dreams

Natalie and Nick are frustrated with their luck in romance. After tossing coins into a fountain, the two then begin dreaming about each other. But, according to fountain mythology, they only have a week to turn those dreams into reality.

PG

6.5

2015 Drama 94 min Play

7.5

Love’s Christmas Journey

While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Mrs. Thompson, a local shop keeper, and handsome admirer Deputy Strode. Settling in nicely with her brother's family, Ellie also meets Erik, a young man abandoned by his outlaw father whom Aaron has taken in as one of his own. When Aaron travels out of town to purchase ...

NR

7.5

2011 Romance 172 min Play

6.8

Sybil

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

NR

6.8

2007 Drama 89 min Play

4.7

Just Write

A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.

NR

4.7

1997 Comedy 102 min Play

5.2

Jungle 2 Jungle

Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.

PG

5.2

1997 Comedy 97 min Play

4

Final Appeal

A lawyer must defend his sister in the court of law who's accused of murdering her seemingly perfect, but in fact very abusive husband.

NR

4

1993 Drama 91 min Play

5.3

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

A tough cop's seemingly frail mother comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life. She buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol and starts poking around in his police cases. Eventually, the film draws to a denouement involving the title of the film and the revelation that even though she seems frail and weak she is capable of strong actions in some circumstances, i.e. when her son is threatened by thugs and she shoots herself in the shoulder.

PG-13

5.3

1992 Action 87 min Play

5.9

Switch

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

R

5.9

1991 Comedy 104 min Play

6.4

Dutch

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.

PG-13

6.4

1991 Comedy 107 min Play

6.5

My Name Is Bill W.

Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.

NR

6.5

1989 Drama 100 min Play

5.8

Welcome Home

An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.

R

5.8

1989 Drama 96 min Play

5.6

Desert Bloom

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.

NR

5.6

1986 Drama 105 min Play

6

Poltergeist II: The Other Side

The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religeous zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.

PG-13

6

1986 Horror 91 min Play

6.3

American Dreamer

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

PG

6.3

1984 Action 105 min Play

5.8

Teachers

A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.

R

5.8

1984 Comedy 107 min Play

6.8

The Day After

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

NR

6.8

1983 Drama 127 min Play

7.1

Poltergeist

Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh to help before it's too late.

PG

7.1

1982 Horror 114 min Play